The Influence Of The Pokanoket

Upon the Puritans arrival in the New England colonies their relationship with the indigenous peoples, called the Pequot’s, started off on bad footing. They sought to acquire Indian lands and were prepared to use tactics such as ruining the natives land with livestock, fining them for breaking English law, and making deals with corrupt Indian leaders. The disdain the puritan colonists held the natives in is the source that caused things to become disastrous. When the Anglo-Saxon people turned to war to gain what the sought after and had no problems killing the Pequot’s as they slept you see that they believed the natives were beneath them. What could have been a beneficial relationship of equableness and trade became a bloody conflict. The relationship had much less time to be beneficial to either

After to bloody massacre of the Pequot people on that night in 1637 almost forty years of uncomfortable peace between the natives and the Anglo-Saxon’s followed. The nearly forty years of peace came to an end when war raged between the Pokanokets and the New England colonies. The war that came to be known as King Philip’s war would be one of the most destructive battles in the early colonial period. King Philip, the sachem and a Pokanoket that was raised among English colonists, decided that his people had no place in the English world and broke the alliance. In the beginning King Philip benefitted from the alliance with the colonists in Plymouth as he had been raised and educated there. On the other hand the colonists had learned how to survive when they arrived in the new world only because of the natives like the Pokanokets. As a result of the English prospering as they learned how